Hello Ted, groff 1.18.1 is rather old is it not...
But it does show that the change to lower came in groff 1.19, the first appearance of papersize.tmac. Werner kindly pointed me in that direction. The change broke some of my scripts. If anyone makes use of the string variable 'paper' from papersize.tmac, restoring the case would break theirs. On the other hand none of the files in tmac uses it. Can I suggest a change to papersize.tmac to leave \*[paper] as the user defined it? Easily achieved: remove .ds paper \*[lowercase], replace subsequent uses of \*[paper] by \*[lowercase], and move .rm lowercase to the end. Denis On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:02:53 -0000 (GMT) (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> wrote: > On 16-Jan-2013 14:49:04 Denis M. Wilson wrote: > > If I run the following shell script > > > > troff -ww -dpaper=A4 -dcA5 <<'END' > > .tm PAPER = \*[paper] c = \*[c] > > .ex > > END > > > > The output is > > > > PAPER = a4 c = A5 > > > > What is going on? > > (groff v1.22.1) > > Denis > > Hmmm ... I get: > > troff -ww -dpaper=A4 -dcA5 <<'END' > > .tm PAPER = \*[paper] c = \*[c] > > .ex > > END > PAPER = A4 c = A5 > > (But: groff version 1.18.1) > Ted. > > > ------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> > Date: 16-Jan-2013 Time: 15:02:50 > This message was sent by XFMail > ------------------------------------------------- > -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
